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FLIRTATION. W hat Is flirtation? Really, MowN can I aniswer that ? Yet when she smiles I see its wiles, And when he lifts his hat. 'Tis meeting in the ball room, 'Tis whirling in the dance; With something hid beneath th2 lid Besides a Simple golance. 'Tis walking in the hall way, 'Tis resting on the stair; 'Tis bearded lips oi linger tips (If mamma is (jot there.) 'Tis going out for ices, 'Tis buttoning on a glove; 'Tis lips that speak of Phl3's ntext week, And eyes thlt talk of love. 'Tis tucking in a carriage, "is asking for a call; 'Tis lifted eyes anld telder sighs, And this is -no, not all. 'Tis parting when 'tis over, Alnd one goes home to sleep; Tra la, my frield. be'4 joys illst el( - But ol( goes iome to weepi. Rupert's Request. "Come hither, Beryl.'' Stuyvesant Nutwood spokc in kind. Iv tones to his daughter, and yet the girl noticed. or imagined that Phe did, a slight tremor inl his voice, bift. think ing it was die to the involuitary loose ting of his false teeth, gave the matter no filther attetltion. She crossed the room to where her fath -r was sit 1ing in5 his great armtii elair beside the window. Beryl had gr(own1 up on helr fathr's farm almost without society, hut not w it hout eduteationl, for every year' she had attemId the seminary It Acorn ville, :n(l in her e(ighteelnth year had g.,radlated with all the honors and : percale dress. And tihen she had gone back to the farm again, but somehok' h ter life therei was not as satisfaclt ory as before. There wcere times wh-ii Beryl felt, a sense of einiui Imixcd with al ill defliite feelig of rtlessness t hat wouli cause h r to wanider aimulessly aro0und1 the pla1ce inl a reverie until- re called to the things of this world by stepping oni her antkle. Biut though she strove to conlcelal, evenl from her-. se*lf, i he reall caui ol0 .f ti i feeling, her heart wold~ ever and lianon give a great thtrob) as she thought of Rhupert lIohllin~gsworth.1. who' wa's now~ a1 strug gluig lawyev(r in t Wes.tr towvn. Thlere had1( been~ no0 words of Jove he I ween3 themi, bu on the daty Rupewrt graduated they had met. for the last time0, aml,(1 sttnin1g beneath the shade of a1 graind old4. oak tat guardedl the en1 trancee to I hie college camtpuis, Rupert had taken Bery l's hand in his and( said( to her, wh1ile his dark brown eyes seemed looking Ito her very soul: "You will not forget me enitirely, Miss Stuyvesant ? "1 shall neve~r forget you,'' 1.he re plied, w ith? grat ve earnestiness, "ais lonlg aIs I live.'' .1i had11( once step~pedl on her toes. W lhen Beryl. had*1 cross'ed t he roomi her fabthi'r mo1tionted her to a seat by his side, antd as5 .she cuddled up cosily on1 a baissock and, plcinlg her arms uuion her knees, looked un in his fe with a Wondering expresslon In betr great blue eyes, Stuyvpesant Nutwood felt a great thrill of sorrow in the knowledge that one day this beautiful girl, with all her wealth of love and bandolile, would leave him forever. "1 have received a letter from Rua pert lollingsworth, Beryl," lie said. The girl gave a sudden st'art, and a wave of crimson swept over t he pure, sweet face, but she did not speak. ' Can you not guess," he continued, "what the purport of his letter is ? Beryl couild no longer look In her father's face. She knew full well why luapert IIollingsworth had writ tell. le had gone away only years before inl all the vigor of his gla(d mahood, and his Splendid talents had gained for him Suceess where others had fail ed An( now. crowned w itli the laurel wreath of victory, he had written to her father for permission to ulrge his suit wifh her. She knew all this full well, ::n1 1 vet when hrw father' asked her th qilestin'ln to which her hieart hal al ready giveln ainswer, Bile di I niot reply "You coul never guess, little ole, saidl St uy vesAt N it wood, a mernr twinkle inl L's eyes, "*wlhy Iuiper't has written. Do you ti hnk vou coldd ?" A deeper b1lush overspread the pret ty "But 1 will tell you," h. conatiiluedl, '"because 'oil t wo were at college to getIher. StIll, pei-haps I hd better he silet''-:and againl the lalaghing igh enme111 into liert f:tler's evyes. "i'ell tme, papa," whispered Beryl. no lo)n(rer able to conceval her eager ess, %I lwy he has written.", "'lie wants somethini," was the re ply. "Ca l 3 o nI o (t gutess wliat it is ?" verv ti.er of Beryl's bein-P is thr(Obbingo wit h expectan11ey nowu '. 'le sunl has passed ffom siht, :majl rent bands of roy light thait stremlu all) from below I he horiz.a's rim cast :1 stranl ge halo over thie silent., en.th. Beryl feels the solimnii influiences of the t w ilight hour, bait no0 word( colmes from he lips ). C '(an 3 CIu tnot guless," repeats h''r desires ? For' atn inistant she dloes not treply. To aniswer' h (jclueSt 31n in the affib tum Live w~oul seemr hold( and forward. and~ yet ennt she dleny, e'venI to hier'eelf, a .knowledge of what .liupi'rt de'sires ' So slie sim~ply says to her fat her : 'ell mec what lhe wanats." Bending tenderly over is dlaughiter. 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